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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80602" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:28.553Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:28.553Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80602" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80602.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80602" title: "perf/x86/amd/lbr: Fix kernel address leakage" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/x86/amd/lbr: Fix kernel address leakage\n\nA user-only branch stack can contain branches that originate from\nthe kernel. As a result, kernel addresses are exposed to user space\neven when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested. On AMD processors\nsupporting X86_FEATURE_AMD_LBR_V2, perf can still report SYSRET/ERET\nentries for which the branch-from addresses are in the kernel.\n\nE.g.\n\n $ perf record -e cycles -o - -j any,save_type,u -- \\\n perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \\\n perf script -i - -F brstack|tr ' ' '\\n'| \\\n grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'\n\n ...\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a38f1a/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a39157/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a2c628/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a41b60/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a260db/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a260db/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a8bef1c30/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n 0xffffffff81001268/0x717a8e4d3c90/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH\n ...\n\nThe reason is that the hardware filter only considers the privilege\nlevel applicable to the branch target. Extend software filtering to\nalso validate the branch-from addresses against br_sel, so that any\nbranch record whose branch-from address is in the kernel is dropped\nwhen PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f4f925dae7419fc7a10af539c073871927ce3a24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5be478c1e08981ca91b34de310d7e2638171d9d8"},{"version":"f4f925dae7419fc7a10af539c073871927ce3a24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"208ecca408b1707ad86ea247d3d3e09d3606fc13"},{"version":"f4f925dae7419fc7a10af539c073871927ce3a24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ab0eba9c8819506bcb72348fd701f8a9006f95e"},{"version":"f4f925dae7419fc7a10af539c073871927ce3a24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb3b76b5ad2ebad63dd76f8b65b624eaf638b73f"},{"version":"f4f925dae7419fc7a10af539c073871927ce3a24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a892294b83f541115c94b0bb637f39bef187657"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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